Had a '67 Volvo 122S 2dr back in the early '80s, just the stock banger but with a well sorted out suspension, ...a great ride, one that I later really regretted selling! Never owned a 3.8 Jag saloon but always dug 'em, ...and every time I look at a P1800 I can't help but think how sweet a roadster it would make if a really clean conversion were done.
Tony, I love the sunbeam alpine idea.......did you see the one that the guy was trying to move on Bring a Trailer recently?...... look like great basis for a project.....
#86 I'm really digin' that black Falcon! It would seem to me that one of the desired attributes of a grand tourer would be serviceability. Some of the more exotic stuff might be a problem when your on the side of the road just south east of nowhere.
Its all about performance. Cars mostly... It can cover pretty much any car that would be Off Topic here, as long as its built to go fast.
The Volvo 120 (Amazon) is my alltime favorite for a daily driver, with pretty good handling and a simple, gutsy 1.8 or 2 liter four. I've owned three and I'd love to have another, but it would get an overdrive and dual circuit brakes this time around. They weigh about the same as an original Mustang, and have a very strong unit body design, but are prey to rust like most other '60s cars. What I'd love to try with the Volvo is the Mercruiser 470 swap someone on the HAMB is doing. More or less like putting half a Ford 460 in it.
I'm really enjoying this thread! I love the volvo 122 and 123's I've had them in my mind for sometime now. There is a super solid and still very nice, But in-op 122 up the road from me. I'm thinking real real hard about it after this thread.
My favorite. I actually owned one when I was too young and dumb to build it for the street. Now I'm too old and dumb to build it. Besides the cost has out paced my wallet.
You aint the only one! You have probably seen this one before, but hell I never get tired of looking at it! Drool, slobber...
I found this in the course of searching for something else: Not pretty, but somehow appealing; and very much in line with your brief. The same might be said of this: What I was looking for and failed to find anywhere on the Internet was this 1925 Elgé: My first reaction to your post was this sort of aerodynamic bodywork on an Austin 7, though subsequent reflection suggests that a T might be a more appropriate scale. As you know I like the early stuff. Something like this can be endowed with the requisite power and creature comforts; but as regards ride and handling, watch this space. Something really interesting is on its way.
No shit??! There are actually 853 factory-built V8 MG hot rods out there? Why have I never heard of these, and where are the other 852? Nice. I've seen this Volvo wagon before, and it's great looking. 2 doors, too! I understand the point-and-squirt connection, but how does this have anything else to do with "comfortable and compact coupe"?
Hey Tony, Has anyone brought up the "Griffin"? Ford powered- 260-289 c.i.d. small in size, and most ''chuckable" Some of these suffered the ignominious plight of having been built with english Ford V/6s The V8 built variants ,given the short wheelbase, bordered on lethal, especially when driven under the influence of expensive scotch I've a twenty-five year old 5.0 that if it sits around my shop much longer, I'm going to have to " transform'' it into a Griffinsque beast. I'd also go with a Typhoon, the early glassfibre bodied english Ford powered Lotus 6/7 scaled issue, not the late model Generious Motors product marketed to P.E. teachers " Humpty Dumpty was pushed "
Rex, see posts #16 and 25. I'm pretty sure it was Griffith rather than Griffin, but we're definitely talking the same car. Thanks, but no. I'm not familiar with the UK Typhoon.
The silence is deafening around my #115 post, so perhaps I should explain a little. The final iteration of the Gen III Corvette (I think that's how it's counted) always struck me as the most overblown, excessively overhung version of what started out to be a smallish sporty car. As a result (I submit), they are at the bottom of the Corvette food chain and worth less money than nearly any other model. Seems to me that if you whacked off all the excess, and tidied up the ragged edges in the fashion of a '70s sports racer (maybe shortened the wheelbase while you were in there), it might look and act a bit more like the musclebound bully that it was supposed to be. Well, everybody has goofy ideas from time to time, no?
sorry...maybe this? http://sandiego.craigslist.org/csd/cto/2484694314.html i have a serious soft spot for these: you can always look here for tons of neat-o stuff: http://bringatrailer.com/
I never took any pictures, but basically I cut off the body and built a new aluminum frame and body onto what was left of the monocoque keeping the original front end, rear end and original dimensions...
Yeah, sorry... But I dont think any amount of hacksaws is going to get you from something like that Vette to anything like that 908-3. But you could get a Vette with some of the ugly cut off it....
Yeah, I did, Felix. Here's the rest of the car I posted before. It was for sale in the San Jose area a few years ago; it belonged to an industrial designer whose name I recognized but have since forgotten. SBF powered, so it was legitimately the "first Tiger": It's a bit girly looking, both the body style and in this color -- kind of "Grace Kelly gets kinky". But I think they're pretty cars, and I'm crazy for the factory louvered hood. Yeah, I saw that too. BAT is a great resource, and it's always waiting for me in the morning. I'll bet that Cortina is a barrel of fun, but I've never been drawn to the body style -- even when Jim Clark was driving them.
Tony, Right you are 'bout the Griffith, the Griffin was the Intermecanica built sometimes Ford powered beast that later became the Ventura. The Typhoon was one of those late 50s, early 60s glassfibre specials that featured Ford Anglia/Popular hardware bits and perhaps MG/Triumph bits with a tube type frame. The open roadster issue is still big with vintage racing types, but I've been bitten by the FHC variant, the backlight of which came out of an MGA FHC. Oh, and the third generation of plastic car............ you'd not have to worry 'bout ''wacking everthing off but the roof'' as driven in anger, this era of Corvette has a nasty habit of finding guardrails & high curbs. My brother's '79 handled like a step van on bald tires & black ice I'd add to my list the AC Greyhound, some had the english Ford inline six, but some had the Bristol six as well. Easier to get into and out of than an Aceca. '' Spending a nation into generational debt is not an act of compassion "
I just thought that the 908 was the epitome of everything the Corvette isn't -- NO overhang at either end, and a short wheelbase to boot. I imagine it's 3/4 as wide as it is long.
check this one out... if my funds were in better order, i would be all over it... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...1402&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEWAX:IT#v4-43
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